what exactly is an independent?

In terms of political affiliation I know what it is supposed to be but when a politician uses the term practice it always just seems like somebody who hedges their bets. The issue though comes down to the term ‘independent’ because whenever some politician or social commentator claims to be one it doesn’t seem genuine. Whether it’s Lieberman or Dobbs the terms has started to carry the definition of Hawkish on foreign policy and lame on domestic policy.

I know there are many voters who feel disenfranchised with either political party and thus associate themselves with the middle while they don’t at all have similar view-points. They get clumped together because they are neither a donkey nor an elephant but that is all they have in common. This ostensibly becomes a third party as political commentators will look to see trends in how they vote. The problem is that this ‘third party’ is more disjointed and disconnected than the mess that is either the Democrats or the Republicans

Lou Dobbs stepped down from CNN earlier this month and said he vowed to continue the fight. I can only imagine this to mean that he will setup on a perch with a rifle and shoot wetback crossing the Rio Grande. The problem with Dobbs and CNN is that he wanted to be FoxNews and they wanted to be Switzerland and the combination just didn’t mix. Now the last time Dobbs left CNN in a hiss, he went to become the head of space.com which I have never actually gone to but I can only imagine is the kind of place you can go to “have a star named after you”. The bigger problem for Dobbs is that he had to get so loud in his anti-immigration rhetoric so that he could stand out in the drone from the right but his forum is the only cable-news station that at least tries to stay away from partisan political commentary. So I’ve heard that he should go to FoxNews which I’m sure sounds like it would be a natural fit but the problem becomes time. Where exactly in the FoxNews schedule do they have time for another show unless they want to show it up against Oprah in the afternoon or up against the Honeymooners reruns overnight? Maybe they’d boot Greta (who looks like she took a boot to the face) so they can move their new prized possession Glenn Beck (who looks like a kid toucher) to 10PM and would open up the 5PM slot for Dodds (who looks like he was independently kid touched).